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© Plan International IMPACT REPORT 2020-21
OUR SPECIAL PARTNERSHIP
Plan International UK is a global Funding received from People’s
children’s charity. We work with girls Postcode Lottery players last year has
and boys growing up in some of the supported an array of important work:
world’s most vulnerable communities, from improving lives across
making sure they have access to the sub-Saharan Africa and campaigning
education, health care, clean water and to help girls access and claim their
future opportunities they need to thrive. rights, to enabling us to invest in our
staff, systems and infrastructure.
We’re also working to create a just and
equal world for girls – including here Player support has made a real impact,
in the UK. We’re fighting for a world from helping young people like Tanya
where every child, especially every in Zimbabwe (below) to restart their
girl, knows their value. We want the education, to supporting Pélagie,
communities they’re growing up in – 11, (left) in Burkino Faso to continue
and the world around them – to value learning during the pandemic with
them too. And if a disaster strikes we’re radio lessons. Thank you!
there to protect children, keep them
learning and help them to recover.
Click to
play video
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Sandra and her
mother Rainha in
Mozambique (cover)
after their home
was destroyed by
People’s Postcode Lottery managed lotteries directly for Plan International UK Cyclone Idai.
during the reported period. The Postcode Justice Trust will fund Plan International
UK in 2021 and beyond.
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DIRECT IMPACT
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Aside from contributing towards vital work across
sub-Saharan Africa, support from players is helping
us invest for the future.
The flexibility of funding from players is enabling
us to make important investments in our people,
systems and processes. While these investments
aren’t always visible, they are crucial in allowing us
to continue delivering life-changing interventions for
children and young people.
2021-2023 strategy
Funding from players supported the development
and implementation of our new 2021-2023 strategy,
launched in February 2021. Our strategy sets out
what we intend to achieve over the next three years
and the key ways of working and infrastructure which
will support us to deliver those goals. The process,
which involved Plan International UK Trustees,
staff and our Youth Advisory Panel, included an
in-depth analysis of Plan International’s strengths,
the external context and a reflection on our previous
strategy. To monitor our impact, a performance
report has been developed which includes targets
and will track progress against the strategy.
Funding has helped us
to research on girls’ lives
in the UK. Left to right:
Olamide, 17, Rochelle, 16,
Matilda, 17 and Esther, 17
from London.
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Emergency Response staff Social Development Direct
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Funding from players has enabled us to invest in In March 2020 we were delighted to use funds
deployable staff, who are able to travel and respond raised by players towards a new social impact
quickly to disasters and emergencies. Despite travel in investment. Social Development Direct (SDDirect)
2020-21 being severely restricted due to the pandemic, is a leading provider of high-quality, gender
the team remained busy providing remote support inclusive, social development services. The
to programmes in Somalia and Sudan, physical investment has enabled us to enhance our
deployments to Sierra Leone and South Sudan, ability to drive change for girls and increase
and supporting on successful bids to respond to the technical capacity.
Venezuela refugee crisis in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.
This year the partnership continued to help
Plan International UK in many areas of our
Diversity and Inclusion Strategy
work particularly in response to the coronavirus
In January 2021, we worked with a consultant to pandemic. SDDirect’s Violence Against Women
develop a Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, to build a and Girls (VAWG) Helpdesk helped shape the
culture of inclusion and review processes and systems UK Government’s domestic and international
to minimise the impact of bias. Staff surveys, focus policy and programming response, focussing on
groups, and meetings with Leadership Team and the impact the pandemic might have on violence
other key stakeholders took place over a period of six against women and girls.
months. The findings have been compiled in a detailed
report and we are now in the process of drafting the In June 2020, SDDirect launched the
strategy, based on findings from the first stage. Safeguarding Resource and Support Hub, a
one-stop shop for the aid sector to strengthen
Impact of coronavirus on UK girls’ lives their safeguarding policy and practice to
prevent sexual exploitation, abuse and sexual
Thanks to player support, we commissioned a piece harassment within the sector.
of research on the impact of the coronavirus pandemic
on girls’ lives in the UK. Surveys, focus groups and We were delighted to contribute profits of
in-depth interviews with girls took place during £433,671 received from SDDirect to three of
summer 2021, which will allow us to understand the our priority programmes: an education project
longer-term impact beyond lockdown and how we can for refugees in Gambella, Ethiopia; a maternal
best respond to girls’ needs. We will produce a UK and infant nutrition project in Bangladesh; and
Bettany, a Venezuelan
girls’ rights report, the insights from which will be used a project to prevent child marriage and Female
migrant in Bogotà, Colombia
with her Plan International to inform and influence our programmatic approach, Genital Mutilation (FGM),
hygiene kit to help protect advocacy and communications work in the UK. in Tanzania.
her from the virus.
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ENABLED IMPACT
In 2020-21, players helped support 15 projects
across Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana,
Malawi, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Sudan,
Sudan, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Players
have also contributed to our vital global response
against coronavirus, which has directly helped
children and their families in 23 countries. Thanks
to players’ support, we successfully delivered these SUDAN
BURKINA
programmes across three existing funds: FASO
SIERRA
Emergency Response Fund LEONE SOUTH SUDAN
Responding to the urgent needs GHANA ETHIOPIA
of children and their families
affected by crises in the region, NIGERIA
including conflict, displacement
and food insecurity. CAMEROON
TANZANIA
Skills for Life Fund
Helping young people to earn a MALAWI
safe and secure living.
ZAMBIA
Power & Potential Fund ZIMBABWE
Tackling the barriers that keep
girls and women from claiming
their rights.
Every £1 from players has unlocked an
average of £5.80 more from government
donors. This year, player support has
unlocked more than £2.4 million!
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Players have enabled us to make real impact around the world across our three funds, including:
Emergency Response Fund Skills for Life Fund Power & Potential Fund
Distributed 8,000 Set up 1,484 Trained 180 reading
shelter kits* savings and loans ambassadors in
groups refugee camps
in Ethiopia
6,792 children Trained 1,603 Set up 115 positive
received learning people in financial masculinity clubs
materials literacy for boys and men
Trained 1,716 Established 2,493 5,894 children
people in farmer field schools continued their
emotional first in Malawi, with education through
aid for children 70,112 farmers TV lessons in Ghana
Built 44 new Trained 991 6,279 out-of-school
classrooms for people in business girls in Zimbabwe
refugees management learning during
in Ethiopia COVID-19
Reporting period February 2020 - July 2021 6
*Shelter kits provide communities with the tools to rebuild their homes and lives after disasters and include items such as tarpaulins, ropes, plastic sheets and sleeping mats.
Across the three funds:
Reached 248,078 475 farming 100% of refugee
children, young households now pupils in Ethiopia
people and their have backyard passed their
communities farms to produce final exam
food in Malawi thanks to extra
coaching
45% more children Provided 3,021 4,029 farmers
can now do simple disabled children in Malawi are
addition thanks in Nigeria using climate-
to our education with assistive smart agriculture
project in Nigeria devices
180,000 trees In Ghana, 90% Equipped four
planted in Malawi of children felt health centres
to combat TV lessons with youth-
climate change helped their friendly rooms
learning in Tanzania
Reporting period February 2020 - July 2021 7
Kenza from Burkina Faso
washes her hands using
one of the handwashing
CORONAVIRUS RESPONSE
devices provided by Plan
International.
The global pandemic has devastated With support from players, Plan
vulnerable communities around the International’s global coronavirus
world, where self-isolation isn’t an option. response has made a difference
Restrictions on movement, lockdowns to the lives of millions of people
around the world.
and social distancing measures have
made it harder to work, go to school, or Below are a few examples of our
access food, water and medical support, global response:
particularly for women and girls.
Distributed 2,343 Distributed reusable
handwashing menstrual
stations in kits to over
Guinea 4,000 girls in
Mozambique
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Supported 120 Supported 607,883
different radio girls and women
based learning through cash and
programmes voucher
around assistance
the world
8In Burkino Faso, we’re working with Groups start income-generating
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over 200 schools to prevent the schemes and set up Savings and Loans
spread of coronavirus. This has Groups to give people access to credit.
involved providing personal protective
equipment, handwashing devices, One of our top priorities has been
soap, education materials and training helping children keep learning
for teachers. remotely. Digital technology has helped
so many children in our communities.
In Guinea, we’re helping communities But many children – especially girls –
get back on their feet financially. To haven’t had the means to learn online.
cover urgent needs, we’ve distributed Radio has helped us to reach millions
food aid and run cash-for-work of children wherever they are and with
initiatives. We’ve helped Women’s the minimum equipment.
Bintou is president of one of
the cash-for-work groups in
Guinea.
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Rahmata, 11, from Mali
joined her school listening
club to follow lessons on
the radio.
9NYADOW’S STORY
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“
The civil war in South Sudan has
caused 1.9m people to flee the I am very happy and proud
country. It is one of the most severe of it. All the girls who have
humanitarian crises in the world.
passed from Grade 8 to 9
Ethiopia’s Gambella region is a
temporary home to 313,000 South
in high school, we talk
Sudanese refugees. Many are about it all the time,
survivors of recent trauma. 65% about the ways forward
are children. and how we can continue
our education until
”
Thanks to players’ support, we are
the end of high school.
working with over 30,000 children in
Gambella’s refugee camps and host
communities and getting them back Nyadow, 18, Ethiopia
into education.
Nyadow’s education was interrupted “All people in our neighbourhood
when the conflict in her home district became happy, and as a result, they
forced her family to leave. When are now encouraging me by telling
Nyadow arrived in Gambella she was me to continue my learning. They
17 and still learning at primary school understand that I really meant it
level. She was determined to keep because I passed the exam.”
making progress and attend Plan
International’s Gender Club and extra “All I can say is thank you so much for
tutoring classes. Today, at 18, she coming to me and encouraging me to
has passed the Grade 8 exam which be strong and continue my study and
qualifies her for high school. because all you wanted is to see us
successful in life. Had you not provided
Nyadow told us that people in the that remedial education support, all of
Nyadow, 18, is able to
access education in
camps were dismissive of the idea of us would not have passed the exam at
Ethiopia’s Gambella region educating girls. Now she says things all. Hopefully, I will be in Grade 10
after being forced to flee have changed: next year!”
her home in South Sudan.
10COMMUNICATIONS AND CAMPAIGNS
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The support we receive from People’s In response to the tragic passing of
Postcode Lottery players gives us Sarah Everard in March 2021, there
exciting opportunities to tell girls’ has been a mass outpouring of grief
stories in innovative ways and increase and anger across the UK press and
the charity’s reach and awareness. social media, with journalists and
politicians demanding quick solutions.
Crime Not Compliment We made a strategic choice to focus
Our campaign to make public sexual on amplifying the voices of girls on this
harassment a criminal offence in the issue, working hard to embed the
UK – run in partnership with grassroots phrase ‘public sexual harassment’ and
youth activist group Our Streets Now – challenge terms like ‘catcalling’.
has gathered considerable momentum
To date, the campaign has secured
since launching in November 2020.
nearly 60,000 pledges to our online
Having met with Ministry of Justice and hand-raiser action and more than 400
Home Office civil servants, our Chief individual pieces of media coverage,
including references of players’ support
Executive Rose Caldwell joined young
for the campaign in the Daily Telegraph,
activists from Plan International’s
Metro and LAD Bible, plus regional
Youth Advisory Panel and Our Streets
media outlets across the country.
Now at a meeting with Home Secretary
Priti Patel to discuss the campaign in We were delighted to share details
February 2021. about Crime Not Compliment with
People’s Postcode Lottery staff at their
Our campaigning activities also
International Women’s Day event in
encouraged thousands of people March 2021 and to see players engaging
to respond to the UK Government’s with the campaign via People’s Postcode
Violence Against Women and Girls Lottery’s social media channels. We are partnering with
(VAWG) consultation and email their sisters Maya and Gemma
– who founded Our Streets
MP to support making public sexual We look forward to continuing to engage Now – to call for public
harassment a crime through the staff and players in the campaign sexual harassment to be
introduction of a Private Members’ Bill. as it progresses. For more details made a criminal offence
in the UK.
about the campaign, visit plan-uk.org/
crimenotcompliment.
11We have shown players the impact
of their support through engaging Click to
content and creative storytelling across play video
People’s Postcode Lottery and Plan
International UK digital channels, and
helped staff stay connected to the “I’ve learned how
to speak again
children and young people – and each and to have
other – while working from home. confidence
in myself”
Here are a few of our shared
Amina, 15
Nigeria
achievements:
Coronavirus response
Player support for our Coronavirus:
Children’s Emergency Appeal Celebrating £10m! People’s Postcode Lottery players have raised
£10 million for Plan International UK since
has been acknowledged across In December 2020, we celebrated
December 2017, helping us make a real
impact around the world as we strive
“We deserve to feel
to advance children’s rights and
People’s Postcode Lottery and Plan our incredible partnership raising
equality for girls. safe in public spaces
and no-one has the
International UK social media channels £10 million for Plan International UK right to take
and regional media, with a letter to since December 2017. We created an that away
from us.”
editors from our Head of Disaster Risk animated video reflecting the journey Jess, 19
Management distributed to titles across we’ve been together over the past three
UK
the UK. years – and the 10 key areas players Designed &
Printed in the UK
with love
have supported – which was published
Making impact online and across social media.
With our partnership nearing its third
To help celebrate this milestone
year, we celebrated our joint impact
with People’s Postcode Lottery and “This has changed
with People’s Postcode Lottery players my life, given me
Plan International UK staff working a livelihood and
and Plan International UK supporters
away from their respective offices restored my
by sharing digital animations of our hope for the
in Edinburgh and London, we also future.”
2019/20 Impact Report across social
created a commemorative notebook James, 17
media. We also took the opportunity Tanzania
and series of greetings cards featuring
to celebrate fundraising milestones,
illustrated portraits and inspirational
including People’s Postcode Lottery
quotes from young people highlighting
raising £600m for good causes in
the impact of our partnership.
September 2020.
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Left to right: Muriel, 21, Supporting UK girls
Annie, 21, and Esther, 20 When I first researched
from Bangor took part in Players’ ongoing support for our
our Wales Insights Report. domestic programmatic work was
what job I’d like to do,
acknowledged in our latest State I got told ‘solicitor work’
of Girls’ Rights in the UK research and it’s like, why
which was published in January can’t I be a barrister?
2021. Launched virtually due to Why can’t I be a judge?
”
coronavirus restrictions, our Wales It’s not just a man’s role!
Insights Report reflects some of the
specific experiences of girls growing Muriel, 21
up in Wales, both before and during
the pandemic, revealing the true
extent of gender inequality they’re
facing today.
“
It’s been a roller-coaster...
Section 1 What is it Like to be a Girl in Wales?
Usually I’m used to getting
out and getting active
and that really helps,
and now all of a sudden,
I couldn’t do all of those
things that used to help
[my mental health] a lot.
”
So it’s been a struggle.
THE STATE OF GIRLS’ Annie, 21
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RIGHTS IN THE UK
2019-2020
WALES INSIGHTS REPORT
2 The State of Girls’ Rights in the U.K 2019-2020, Wales Insights Report
13THANK YOU SO MUCH
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It has been vulnerable children, especially girls,
a particularly at a time when they most need our
significant year support. Player funding has allowed
for our special us to direct resources where they are
partnership most needed and plan strategically
with People’s during such uncertain times.
Postcode Lottery.
From supporting One of our proudest achievements
our coronavirus this year is our Crime Not Compliment
emergency response to enabling out- campaign to make public sexual
of-school girls to get back to learning, harassment a criminal offence in the
together we have achieved so much UK. Supported by players of People’s
despite the continued challenges of Postcode Lottery, the campaign has
the pandemic. gained substantial media coverage,
led to meetings with the Home Office
We were delighted to celebrate the – including Home Secretary, Priti
incredible milestone of players raising Patel – to discuss why legislative
£10 million for Plan International action is needed, and secured tens of
UK since December 2017. This is thousands of pledges of support from
a fantastic achievement and has the public and our partners.
changed the lives of children and
young people around the world. We On behalf of all the staff and volunteers
are extremely grateful to players for at Plan International UK, and the
their generosity and to the People’s children and communities we work
Postcode Lottery team in Edinburgh for with: thank you so much to People’s
their incredible support – thank you all Postcode Lottery’s players and staff
so much. for your continued support. We truly
couldn’t achieve all we do without you.
The flexibility of player funding has
never been more important. The UK Best wishes,
Government’s cut to overseas aid from
Tawana, 10, had never
0.7% to 0.5% of Gross National Income Rose, Chief Executive been to school before our
will continue to have far-reaching Plan International UK girls’ education project was
consequences for the world’s most launched in Zimbabwe.
14Aishatu, 24, is a gender
equality activist in North
East Nigeria after enduring
a forced and abusive
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17, and being forced from
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